Iron Horse Bicycle Classic

If you want Ed Zink’s legacy of unwavering community service to continue, live it. That was the message to hundreds of people who attended a memorial service for the Durango native Monday at the...

Ed Zink, a founder of the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic, owner of Mountain Bike Specialists and longtime La Plata County rancher, died Friday from complications of a heart attack. He was 71. Family...

The Iron Horse Bicycle Classic is looking for some ideas, and there are plenty of them out there. Quickly approaching their 50th anniversary event to be held Memorial Day weekend 2021, the IHBC...

Ruth Holcomb is young, but she competes with the skill of a veteran and the speed of riders in their prime. The 16-year-old from Durango blew past the professional women’s mountain bike field...

The Iron Horse Bicycle Classic was able to fit most of the morning races into its final day, but the final two, the mountain bike race and the cruiser criterium, were both impacted by an afternoon...

Stephan Davoust said he had never stood on top of a podium at the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic in his hometown of Durango. That changed Sunday. The 24-year-old professional mountain biker has had a...

If you ask Finn Skowlund which he likes more – biking or skiing – he may give you a puzzled look. He’s never had to choose. The 12-year-old has been biking around Durango most of his life. He likes...

Brayden Harms and his father, Dan, knew that Saturday’s Citizen Tour as part of the 48th Iron Horse Bicycle Classic would present a unique challenge: beat the train and get a run in down Paradise...

SILVERTON – Sarah Sturm stood in Silverton after a second-place finish at last year’s Iron Horse Bicycle Classic professional women’s road race having ridden a borrowed road bike that she clipped...

SILVERTON – Nobody knew when three breakaway riders had gotten away from the peloton halfway into the race. It wasn’t until a group of 10 chase riders could look up at Coal Bank Pass that they...

Pretty much every business in Durango banks on the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic for a strong entry into summer. But even more important, business owners and business leaders say the cycling classic,...